Huntsville man sentenced for reporting false threats against President Obama

A Hunstville man was sentenced today to four months in prison for reporting false threats against President Barack Obama.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn ordered that Charles Thurman II, 54, be taken immediately into custody. She also ordered Thurman pay $1,000 fine and be placed on three years supervised release after serving his prison term.

Thurman pleaded guilty in April to charges that he sent e-mails to the White House claiming that another man was threatening the president's life. The person Thurman identified in the e-mails as having made the threats was a process server who had tried to serve a summons on Thurman.